zambia trip report to olpc learning club dc
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LubutoLiteracy – Zambian Teaching and Learning Materials for the Digital Age
By Mike Lee, Sugar Labs DC – OLPC Learning Club DC Meeting, 13 April 2013
A collage showing my journey from being corporate liaison to the MIT Media Lab to joining the OLPC volunteer community and then to Lubuto Library.
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Jane Meyers of Lubuto Library presented at an OLPC Learning Club meeting.
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Cianna Lee helping to pack up six OLPC XO-1.5 laptops from the OLPC Contributors’ Program to ship to Lusaka, Zambia.
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OLPC Contributor’s
Program Laptops to
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Upper left: Teachers and student assistants working on the Etoys lessons. Lower left two photos are from the XO laptop camera. At right is an architect’s model of the Lubuto Libraries.
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Reading and story circle at the Lubuto Library. http://www.flickr.com/photos/27158519@N02/
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Theater and arts programs are an integral part of the Lubuto library experience.
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LubutoDramaProgram
LubutoArts
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Theater and arts programs are an integral part of the Lubuto library experience.
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Book curation and cataloging at St. Pauls’ Church in NW DC
Under a grant from EIFL, we recorded native bemba spoken phonemes and words to incorporate in the Etoys lessons.
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Recording digital audio underfirst grant from EIFL
Lubuto Library Bemba Letter Board. Clicking on each bemba alphabet letter plays the spoken sound.
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A typical lesson file in Etoys.
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The 700 lessons being inventoried on a Mac laptop.
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700 literacy lessonsProduced in 2011
Mike Lee working with 20 volunteers from the D.C Special Libraries Association to add sound files to the 700 Etoys lessons.
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Special Libraries Association production volunteers in DC
In September 2012, Lubuto Library received a $300,000 grant from USAID and World Vision to enhance and expand the 700 Etoys lessons. http://lubuto.org http://www.allchildrenreading.org/
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Lusaka
Livingstone
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22Workshop gear (plus more laptops)
23Workshops in the multi-purpose room at the library
24Networking the laptops
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Belito and Harrison making their first animations
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Waterdrop microscope
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